Exception thrown for brand links with non-alphabetic characters

[MaffooClock]

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Issue Description

Describe the bug This appears to be nearly the same as Issue #797.

When following a brand link that contains non-alphabetic characters, an exception is thrown from the hashid module via objection-hashid:

The provided ID (link-test) is invalid, as it contains characters that do not exist in the alphabet (Vm6yhUHCuItcsFTfSi87zkMo0EPZra5nAXdvRgj9BGw1WeD3xJOqlpQLNK42bY)

Brand links that do not trigger this validation work as expected, as do the generated short link.

Deployment Method Production:

• AWS ECS Fargate (behind Application Load Balancer) + AWS RDS (PostgreSQL 16.3) + AWS ElastiCache (Redis 6.2.6)

Local testing:

• Docker container from deploy/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml

To Reproduce

1. Create a link with the "Brand Link" field set to any value containing at least one non-alphanumeric character (e.g. "test-link")
2. In the links index, click the URL in the "Brand Link" column:
   • Browser will show the exact message described above
3. In the links index, click the URL in the "Short Link" column
   • Browser will redirect to URL displayed in the "Original link" column

Expected behavior Requests for any "brand link" should redirect the same as the corresponding "short link"

Screenshots N/A

Additional context I haven't taken the time to fully understand the relationship between the "link" model and the "objection-hashid" module, but it seems that the slug of the brand link is being treated as a hashed ID of the short link; like, the request handler can't tell the difference between a hashed ID and a brand slug. So when "hashids" tries to decode that back into a row ID, it Blows the F∙ck Up™.

~It's odd that no one else has reported this already, though, given it's apparent popularity.~ Plus, screenshots in the documentation show some brand links with underscores, so I'm not sure why this is different for me.